[Events] This week's Python user group outreach report, "1/15 edition"

[Carl Karsten]

correction: This year almost  1000 proposals submitted.

about 10% are removed "not right for PyCon"   so there are about 700 talks
that need an audience.


On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Carl Karsten <carl at nextdayvideo.com> wrote:

> Every year for the last 2 or 3 years, PyCon gets 400 talk applications
> that are deemed "good enough for PyCon."  There is only room for 100, so
> that leaves 300 talks that are looking for an audience.
>
> The owners of the data you want will need to be
> contacted (it isn't me at all )
> convinced solicitation to speak somewhere else isn't spam (the get touchy
> when you ask for all the email addresses.  good.)
>
> If someone (not me) wants to peruse this, write up the letter you want to
> send, send that and the plan to the PyCon chair (Diana) and hopeful.y she
> will say "sounds good" and delegate the mechanics to someone with access to
> the data.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Nate Aune <nate at appsembler.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey Asheesh,
>>
>> I wonder if some sort of speaker<->meetup group matching service would
>> be useful. Potential speakers could enter their information: what
>> topics they could speak on, where they live, and if they're willing to
>> travel to give a talk, and then Python/Django meetup group organizers
>> could look at this list of potential speakers and contact them
>> directly about speaking. This would cut down on the amount of
>> coordination you need to do. A quick-n-dirty version of this could
>> simply be a publicly editable Google Spreadsheet, as long as people
>> were okay with having their email addresses listed on that
>> spreadsheet. Then you could make a big push to get women to add their
>> names to the list, and notify the meetup organizers about the list to
>> find their future speakers. Just an idea.
>>
>> Nate
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org>
>> wrote:
>> > This past week, I:
>> >
>> > * Took some time to read through past conversations and stay organized.
>> >
>> > * Looked at the list of speakers at PyCon -- with help from a person on
>> the
>> > OpenHatch Events list,
>> >
>> > * Finally scheduled some time with PyLadies Dominicana. (I think
>> they're a
>> > good target for a newcomers-to-programming workshop.)
>> >
>> > * Reached out to Boston-area Django women programmers who might be
>> > interested in speaking at a specific Django SF meetup that wants more
>> > speakers.
>> >
>> > * Got canceled-on by Django SF person, who was too busy to meet. That's
>> a
>> > drag, because I think Django SF will be good for a
>> newcomers-to-programming,
>> > perhaps women-and-their-friends-oriented Django workshop. I already
>> have one
>> > other volunteer lined up.
>> >
>> >
>> > Obstacles:
>> >
>> > * The Meetup.com 3-max-emails-to-organizers-per-day thing has been
>> tough. A
>> > day ago, I realized that I could pre-write the messages I send groups,
>> which
>> > dramatically simplify the process of reaching out to them reliably
>> daily.
>> > This should improve my throughput.
>> >
>> > * Last week, I was a little overwhelmed by people to get in touch with,
>> and
>> > focused more on replying and less on staying organized. This week, I
>> cleaned
>> > that up.
>> >
>> >
>> > This coming week:
>> >
>> > * Follow up with conversations started in the past weeks to get people
>> > closer to yes, on project nights, newcomer-oriented intro programming
>> > workshops, and finding more women speakers.
>> >
>> > * I expect to make a spreadsheet of names, general location, and email
>> > address for these women PyCon speakers since I haven't heard back from
>> > anyone else offering information like that. Then I'll see if there's a
>> > Python user group near them that they might be interested in speaking
>> at.
>> >
>> > -- Asheesh.
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
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